The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter
society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no
matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails
to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy."
The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction.
"I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed
in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.
Tag: manners politeness etiquette
Sydney tried — sometimes he really tried — but his default mindset didn’t have those kinds of manners. What he really meant was more like “Jacob, get over here or I’ll freeze your underwear.” Something like that.
Rebecca McKinseyTag: manners politeness freeze threatening
I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.
Emma DonoghueTag: manners politeness reticence
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant McGillTag: social manners politeness courtesy polite
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant McGillTag: manners politeness courtesy consideration
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.
Bryant McGillTag: manners politeness courtesy consideration
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant McGillTag: manners politeness rudeness
Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.
Shannon L. AlderTag: fear honesty politeness tact paranoia games anxiety agenda motives low-self-esteem bluntness
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
John AdamsTag: politeness hypocrisy cowardice decency chicanery
A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.
Mark TwainTag: politeness sincerity
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